Period pattern class: Regency!

[labricoleuse]

Period pattern class is up and running this fall, and will encompass the 19th century through fin de siecle styles. These project shots always make popular posts, so i'm excited to be able to share them again. First up, Regency & Empire styles!



Lisa Raymond's project (left) is from this 1922 source image.
Shanna Parks' project shown at right.


Shanna Parks' project in foreground, with a glimpse of Amy A. Page's in the rear.
Shanna's half-form is of cotton netting with applied satin ribbon trim


Amy A. Page did a full-form gown to better explore the apron-bib construction structure.
It is made of a wide-stripe cotton seersucker lined in blue.

Comments

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[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for the recommendation of the Time-Life Unusual Materials book (in your glovemaking post). Not only did I enjoy the tips on handling furs, my daughter and I had great fun mocking the "campy but tasteful" dress ornaments made by crocheting metallic fibers around sink drain stoppers.

Re: Off-topic

[labricoleuse.livejournal.com]

That book is a wealth of both useful information and humor, is it not? Glad you enjoyed it!

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Seeing posts like this sometimes makes me wish we still wore some of the really charming clothing of "yesteryear".

[easyalchemy.livejournal.com]

Regency clothes always look a little night-dress-y to me; I mean, I think they are lovely, and charming, and a nice break from the mechanisms and built-up forms of other eras, but I think in contrast to Victorian, for example, or Elizabethan, they almost seem too simple to be clothes. Fashion-wise, a much more comfortable era for women than most others, I think.